Office 365 subscription plans

With select Office 365 subscription plans you get the fully installed Office applications: Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. (Publisher and Access are available on PC only.)
You can install Office 365 across multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, Android™ tablets, Android
phones, iPad®, and iPhone®. In addition, with Office 365 you get services like Skype minutes (for
home) or online storage with OneDrive.

Office 365 is designed to work with the latest browsers and versions of Office. If you use older browsers
and versions of Office that are not in mainstream support:

Microsoft won’t deliberately prevent you from connecting to the service, but the quality of your
Office 365 experience will diminish over time.

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that touch features are optimized for use with Windows 10, Windows 8.1 or Windows 8.

Other

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.

Other

Microsoft account and/or Microsoft organizational account

Office 365 plans for business, education, and government

The system requirements in the table below apply to business, education, and government plans, including
standalone plans for individual services, such as email-only or online meetings-only plans. Applications
such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business Online, Yammer, Project Online, and
Power BI are also covered by the table below.

Effective October 13th, 2020, Office 365 will only allow Office client connectivity from subscription clients (Office 365
ProPlus), or Office perpetual clients within mainstream support, to connect to Office 365 services. See the
Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy site for Office mainstream support dates.

Office 365 plans for business, education, and government

Office 365 for business, education, and government system requirements

Office 365 for business, education, and government system requirements

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that touch features are optimized for use with Windows 10, Windows 8.1 or Windows 8.

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.

A Microsoft account and/or Microsoft organizational account

FeatureClient applications

Make sure that:

Your Office clients are compatible with Office 365. Office 365
works with any version of Office in mainstream support: the
latest version of Office, Office 2013, and Office 2011 for
Mac. Previous versions of Office clients, in extended support,
may work with Office 365 with reduced functionality.

You’re in compliance with the Microsoft
Service Pack Support Lifecycle Policy. Staying on a fully supported service pack for your Office version ensures that you’re on the latest and most secure version.

Office 365 ProPlus and Lync Basic users can defer installing updates
for only 12 months from date of release.

Some features in Project Online require connectivity to Project Online
Professional, Project Professional 2016, or Project Professional
2013. In February 2017, Project Online client application support will change, coinciding with changes for the Office 2013 version of Office 365 ProPlus:

Project Online will only support the latest in-market Project client (Project Professional 2016).

Project Online will only support the latest Project Professional for Office 365 client (currently the 2016 version)

Office 365 ProPlus

Office 365 ProPlus is one of the subscription service plans in Office. The Office 365 ProPlus requirements are the same as the Office Professional Plus 2016 requirements. Learn more about the difference between Office 365 ProPlus and Office Professional Plus 2016.

Office 2016 suites

Office suites are a one-time purchase that includes applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
for use on a single PC or Mac. Office 2016 suites for business may be purchased for more than five
computers through
volume licensing. Office as a one-time purchase does not include any of the services included in Office 365.

Office 2016 suites for home

Office Home & Student 2016

Office Home & Student 2016

COMPONENT

REQUIREMENT

FeatureComputer and processor

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster x86-bit or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.

Certain features require OneDrive.

Microsoft account

Office Home & Business 2016

Office Home & Business 2016

COMPONENT

REQUIREMENT

FeatureComputer and processor

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster x86-bit or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.

Office Professional 2016

Office Professional 2016

COMPONENT

REQUIREMENT

FeatureComputer and processor

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster x86-bit or x64-bit processor with SSE2 instruction set

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.

For the best experience, use the latest version of any operating system.

FeatureBrowser

The current version of Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Chrome, or Firefox. Get more details.

Feature.NET versiondot NET version

.NET 3.5 required. Some features may require .NET 4.0, 4.5, or 4.6 CLR to also be installed.

FeatureOther

A touch-enabled device is required to use any multi-touch functionality. But, all features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. Note that touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10.

Word 2016: Coauthoring requires SharePoint
Foundation 2013 and a Microsoft account for OneDrive. It might also require
more memory than what is listed here.

Mobile browsers:

Browsers

Safari, Chrome, and Firefox:

Office 365 is designed to work
with the current version of the Safari, Chrome, and Firefox browsers.

Microsoft Edge:

Office 365 is designed to work with the latest
version of the Microsoft Edge browser. Microsoft Edge browser updates are available through the
Windows Servicing branches. Office 365 might continue to work with versions of the Edge browser older than
the latest branch, but Office 365 can’t provide any guarantees.

Internet Explorer:

Office 365 is designed to work with Internet Explorer 11. We recommend that you
upgrade to Internet Explorer 11, if you are using an earlier version.
Office 365 might continue to work with versions of Internet Explorer other than Internet Explorer 11, but Office 365 can’t provide any guarantees.

If your organization is dependent upon earlier versions of Internet Explorer to access older web apps and services, you should consider upgrading to Internet Explorer 11 and evaluating Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11, which provides backward compatibility for legacy web apps. See the
lifecycle support policy for Internet Explorer for more detail.

Office 2013 suites and standalone applications

Office 2013 suites and standalone applications for home are for use on a single PC and do not include
cloud services. Office 2013 suites and standalone applications for business, including Visio and
Project, may be purchased for multiple users through Microsoft Volume Licensing.

Multi-touch features require a touch-enabled device. All features and functionality are always available by using a keyboard, mouse, or other standard or accessible input device. New touch features are optimized for use with Windows 8.

Certain features require a Microsoft account.

Product functionality and graphics may vary based on your system configuration. Some features may require additional or advanced hardware or server connectivity.

Certain features, such as instant search, require Windows Search 4.0.

Excel 2013

To use PowerPivot, you must have .NET 3.5 or .NET 4.0 and at least 2 GB of RAM.

To use Excel 2013 with the Power View add-in, you must have Silverlight 5.0 installed and at least 2 GB of RAM.

For integration with Exchange: Be sure to connect Outlook 2013 to the supported versions of Exchange: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, or Exchange Server 2013. Outlook 2013 is not supported on Exchange 2003.

For integration with Exchange: Be sure to connect Outlook 2013 to the supported versions of Exchange: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, or Exchange Server 2013. Outlook 2013 is not supported on Exchange 2003.